LXX. CORYLA‘CEE: QUE’RCUS. 883 
Height 20 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced in 1730. Flowers greenish white; June. 
Nut brown ; ripe in the autumn of the following year. Apparently nothing 
more than a variety of Q. Ballota. 
Variety. 
¢ # Q.(1.B.) g. 2 Codkii. Q. Codki Arb. Brit. Ist edit. p. 1926. (Our fig. 
1616.) — Either identical with the species, or a slight variety of it. 
A straggling tree, with numerous round grey branches, downy when young. 
Leaves scarcely 1 in. long, rigid, broadly elliptical, often nearly orbicular ; very 
much undulated at the margin, their deep, broad, spinous teeth pointing every 
way, like those of the holly ; the upper surface dark green, rather glaucous, 
besprinkled with minute starry hairs; the under surface densely clothed with 
white entangled down. In the Nouveau Du Hamel, great doubts are expressed 
as to whether this species is identical with the Q. rotundifolia of Lamarck ; 
and whether both sorts may not be merely varieties of Q. Ilex, which we 
believe to be the case. 
# 31. Q. cocci'rERA L, The Kermes, or Berry-bearing, Oak. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1413. ; N. Du Ham, 7. p. 160. 
Synonymes. I ‘lex coccifera Cam. Epit. 774.; I. aculeata cocciglandifera Garid. Aix. p. 245.; J. 
Soccigera Ger. Emac. p.1342.; Chéne aux Kermes, Fr.; Kermes Eiche, Ger.; Querce del 
ermes, Ital. 
Engravings. Garid. Aix., t. 53.; N. Du Ham., 7. t. 46.; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 91.; our fig. 1617. 
from the N. Du Ham., and fig. 1618. from Watson. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rigid ; smooth on both sides, with 
spreading, bristly, spinous teeth. Fruit on peduncles; nut ovate. Calyx 
with spreading, pointed, somewhat recurved scales. (NV. Du Ham.) A low 
bushy evergreen shrub. South of Europe and the Levant. Height 3 ft. to 
5ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers greenish white ; May. Acorns rarely 
ripened in England. 
The whole plant resembles a holly in miniature; but the leaves are of a 
paler green, and they vary exceedingly in magnitude. This oak is well known 
as producing the kermes, or scarlet grain, of com- b 
merce. The fruit is but of a very small size the « 
first year, and does not attain maturity till the 
1617. Q. coccifera. 1618. @ coccifera. 
end of the second. The nuts are oval, and are enveloped for half their length 
in a cup furnished with rough scales terminating in rough points, which are 
almost woody, spreading, and a little recurved. Propagated from the acorns, 
which are received from the Continental nurserymen. 
f # 32, Q. psEU‘Do-cocci’FERA Desf. The false Kermes, or 
Berry-bearing, Oak. 
1 ‘on. Desf. Atl, 2. p.349.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 160. 
rine Hebi Chéne a faux Kermes, Fr.; Stechernde Eiche, Ger. 
Engravings. N.Du Ham., t. 48. f. 1. ; and our fig. 1619. : 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rigid, smooth on both “# 
sides, with spiny serratures. Nut ovate. Calyx with flat slightly 
spreading scales. (Desf.) “ Observed by Desfontaines at Algiers 1619. 
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